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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Oxford DNB was first published in 2004 in print (60 vols.). Since 2005 regular updates have extended the Dictionary’s coverage, now including biographies of more than 60,000 men and women who died in or before the year 2016—plus 536 ‘Theme’ articles for reference and research.
 
The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. It is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University, UK, and published by Oxford University Press.

 

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Iter Italicum

Online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes, between 1963 and 1992, it is an essential tool for any scholar working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.

 
Search or browse by keyword, country, city, library, and library collection.
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Orlando

Orlando provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies.
Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing.
 
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Early European Books online

ProQuest with Early European Books has embarked on a European-wide project which will trace the history of printing in Europe from its origins (circa 1450s) to 1700. The contents are drawn from major repositories including the Danish Royal Library, the National Central Library in Florence, the National Library of France, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Wellcome Library in London.
 
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Bibliografia Generale della Lingua e della Letteratura Italiana (BiGLI)

The BiGLI (Bibliografia Generale della Lingua e della Letteratura Italiana) is a periodical created by the Pio Rajna Center and published by Salerno Editrice since 1994 (vol. I, bibliographic year 1991), which censuses and documents everything that is published in the world, in books and scientific magazines, on the subject of Italian language and literature.

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OpenEdition ebooks

OpenEdition Books is now home to thousands of titles from 60 publishers in the humanities and social sciences.

Two thirds of the titles in the catalogue are available free of charge in HTML and can be quoted, printed or embedded on external sites. PDF and ePub formats are on sale from digital bookstores.

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De Gruyter ebooks

The Sistema Bibliotecario has subscribed in perpetuity to approximately 450 titles.
 
The available ebooks are DRM free and accessible to an unlimited and simultaneous number of users. The formats available are PDF and ePub. On the platform there are also many freely accessible titles (Open/Free access).

 

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